It is reported that President Biden ordered the bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office. Twelve years ago, President Obama did the same thing. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented the Churchill bust to President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks, and Bush proudly displayed it in the Oval Office. When President Trump moved into the White House in 2017, the Churchill bust returned. Modern Republican Presidents honor Churchill’s legacy; Modern Democratic Presidents don’t. Churchill, it seems, is part of the American political divide.
Why don’t Democratic Presidents, unlike Republicans, deem it important to honor Churchill’s memory? What is it about the late British statesman and army officer that produces such different political reactions? Why is Churchill so anathema to recent Democratic Presidents-and leftists more broadly? (In June of last year, Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square was defaced by Black Lives Matter activists who wrote “Racist” on its base, prompting British authorities to install protective covering for the statue.)
POLITICIZING THE MEMORY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL
During his own long political career in Britain, Churchill was a polarizing figure. He changed political parties twice. Much of the political class in Britain viewed him as reckless, untrustworthy, and dangerous. In the days leading up to the First World War, Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, ensured that the British Navy was ready when war came. As Churchill wrote in The World Crisis, from the war’s “first moment the sea-power of Great Britain ruled unchallenged throughout the world.” He proudly boasted that during the transport of the British army to France, “Not a ship was sunk, not a man was drowned: all arrangements worked with the utmost smoothness and punctuality.”
During the next few weeks, Winston Churchill would go on to save Western civilization
Yet, just a year later, Churchill would be forced to resign from the War Cabinet due to the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, for which he unfairly received the whole blame. (This British military campaign to force the straits with the goal of defeating the Ottoman Empire and linking up with Russian forces, which Churchill, among others in the War Cabinet, championed, failed due to the lack of navy-army coordination and poor execution. Instead of using sea power to circumvent the stalemate on the Western Front, British and allied army forces became bogged down on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They suffered more than 100,000 casualties before they withdrew.)
After rejoining the Conservative Party and serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the mid-to-late 1920s, Churchill was deliberately excluded from high office for ten years. It was during this time in the “political wilderness” that Churchill repeatedly spoke in Parliament about the growing Nazi threat, but his prophetic warnings were dismissed as the irresponsible and dangerous ravings of a warmonger. Even when events proved Churchill right and the war situation cried out for strong leadership, it was only with extreme reluctance that King George VI summoned Churchill to become Prime Minister in May 1940.
During the next few weeks, Winston Churchill would go on to save Western civilization by almost single-handedly resisting pressure to make a deal with Hitler and by (to paraphrase the American war correspondent Edward R. Murrow) mobilizing the English language and sending it into battle.
After Germany’s defeat and as the war neared its end, Churchill abruptly fell from power as the war-weary British electorate voted overwhelmingly for the Labor Party, which offered them the promise of socialism. Out of power, Churchill, in an early 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned the West that an “iron curtain” had descended over Central and Eastern Europe. Recalling his wilderness years, he reminded his audience, “Last time I saw it all coming, and I cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.”
Winston Churchill saved Western civilization from Nazi tyranny and alerted the world to the danger of Soviet tyranny. Previous Democratic Presidents, like John F. Kennedy, revered Churchill-JFK conferred honorary U.S. citizenship on the former British leader in April 1963, and praised Churchill as “the most honored and honorable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live.”
But that was the old Democratic Party.
Today, Churchill is not “woke” enough for Democratic Presidents. He was a 19th-century man with traditional Victorian values, a champion of British imperialism who gloried in British history and conquest. He believed with all of his heart and mind in the superiority of Western civilization, and that belief is unacceptable and denounced by the Left today. It is no accident, as the Marxists like to say, that leftist mobs in London attacked Churchill’s statue. For the left, Churchill only symbolizes colonialism, racism, and xenophobia. They’ve ignored or tried to erase the memory of Churchill as a defender of democracy and savior of our civilization.
News reports indicate that the Churchill bust was replaced with the bust of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), who spent three utterly unremarkable years as U.S. Attorney General trying to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, promoting military intervention in Southeast Asia, bugging Martin Luther King Jr., using the IRS to attack political opponents, and protecting his brother, the President, against allegations of mob ties and serial adultery. But when he campaigned for president in 1967, RFK went “woke,” becoming the “peace” candidate and sympathizing with the radicals in the streets who sought to tear America apart. Apparently for some-including our country’s new President-that symbolism trumps paying homage to the savior of Western civilization. A civilization is in peril when its leaders lose faith in it.
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Churchill is hated by Communists/Socialists/terrorists who disguise as Amerian Democrats, because he called them out’;
“ Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery,”
“With Mohammedanism,,Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. ,,,A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, and the next life of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.,,No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith,, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” Factually correct,,,not politically correct and a good reason Iran cannot get the A-bomb.
They also hate him, CAUSE HE CARED ABOUT HIS PEOPLE< not his own power…
Because he didn’t act like a political correct person. He was his own man.
These Devils have to hate and try to erase Winston from the Anglo Saxon Protestant American world where they are forced to mention the word CHURCH, every time they speak his name, which is almost as deadly a socialist sin as having to say Merry Christmas, because making Devils say the word Christ in any form causes them fits of spinning heads, raising beds, and vomiting of pea soup, and may cause their evil spirits to be exorcised from the bodies and minds of the Legions of people they have ensnared and enslaved to their evil will.
“Why don’t Democratic Presidents, unlike Republicans, deem it important to honor Churchill’s memory? The communists want to erase history, led by their fearless leader, Joe Stalin Mao Biden!
They don’t want any competition for being honored..
“For the left, Churchill only symbolizes colonialism, racism, and xenophobia.”
He knew what they represent and called them on it, so, he is also a direct threat should Truth ever become popular.
The greatest political leader of the 20th Century would of course be reviled by the impotent limp Left. The Left only has power when they steal it – they cannot earn power, and like dogs, if they can’t achieve power they will piss on it. Look at the morons participating in the recent BLM marches in DC for the latest example of being kept on a leash as they strain for more power.
By today’s standards–both socially and economically–JFK would qualify as a conservative Republican.
Ted Kennedy would always have a fit whenever someone would point that out. Served him right.